In the Age of Prose
Literary and Philosophical Essays
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- Author: Erich Heller
- Date Published: January 1984
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- isbn: 9780521274951
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The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.
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- Date Published: January 1984
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521274951
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The poet in the age of prose: reflections on Hegel's Aesthetics and Rilke's Duino Elegies
2. The broken tradition: an address
3. Nietzsche's last words about art and truth
4. Thinking about poetry, Hölderlin and Heidegger
5. Karl Kraus
6. Literature and political responsibility: apropos the letters of Thomas Mann
7. The taking back of the Ninth Symphony: reflections on Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
8. Thomas Mann's diaries and the search for identity
9. Knut Hamsun
10. Observations on psychoanalysis and modern literature
11. The dismantling of a marionette theatre
or, psychology and the misinterpretation of literature
12. Man ashamed
13. Theodor Fontane: the extraordinary education of a Prussian apothecary
14. The little world of Wilhelm Busch.
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